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Chad sez, "Last night I gave a talk at IgniteOKC, Oklahoma City's part of the Ignite series of talking events, called 'All I Need to Know About Life I Learned from Dungeons and Dragons.' I had a ton of fun with it and I think it will be of interest to any fans of roleplaying games in general and D&D specifically. I am especially proud of my slides, which are all hand drawn by me :)"

This was an absolutely sweet little talk -- Chad, you should put your slides online separately, since they're a little hard to make out in the video.

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I am often asked just what D&D/RPG is. I think this video is a good thing to steer such questioners as I always have a hard time getting someone to understand the abstract nature of the rules and concepts without actually sitting them down at a table and playing the game.

Montreal. Mountain 1A (or A1, I can’t remember which is correct). More precisely, Tim’s Campbell’s Pyroto, when he still lived in Cartierville, and when he moved to TMR.

Aside from actual research, a large part of the Montreal Pyroto Community’s activities was trading question lists at the PWGT (Permanent Weekly Get-Together), every Friday evening at the “lower bar” at The Annex on Bishop street.

word! i’d add, from my own experience, that whenever a beholder has you suspended above the ground so that you can’t get to them, don’t be afraid to throw your two handed vorpal sword end over end. the dm will call you crazy, but if you roll a 20 (as I did) they will not be able to deny you.

In high school, I took a Ancient Classics course and simultaneously, and stupidly, took another year of Latin. My teacher accused me of plagiarism in my final paper, because he could not believe such an lazy slacker from his Latin class would have such insight and enthusiasm for the literature and mythology of ancient Greece and Rome. Where did I learn from? AD&D. Thanks TSR, for ruining my experience of academics once and for all. Yours, another chronically unemployed misanthrope.

Everything I needed to know about videotaping my friend’s talk I learned from “Everything I need to know I learned from D&D”: You can videotape your friend or you can hoot and cheer for your friend, but you cannot do both.

What a fun talk! I came very late to dungeons and dragons, I played my first game in November, but I’m finding it a great framework for storytelling.

I’ve learned that D&D won’t lead one to demon worship or suicide, which was My mom’s fear in the 80’that prevented me from playing as a kid). But it does teach and understanding of probability distribution, mythology, basic storytelling techniques and economics.